“In a wiser, more self-aware society than our own, a standard question on any early dinner date would be: ‘And how are you crazy?’” Alain de Botton, “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person“ When I was six, my nine-year-old sister, Katie, was put into a mental hospital for three months. There’s a lot to …
Have I Repented Too Much? For the Mudroom
The book I use for daily prayer, The Divine Hours, includes a lot of confessions, like this classic: Almighty God, my heavenly Father: I have sinned against you, through my own fault, in thought, and word, and deed, and in what I have left undone. I wince almost every time I read this prayer. It’s cliché to wince …